This may come as a shock to many of our readers, but it is very doubtful Adam and Eve ever consumed grains of any kind while in the Garden of Eden. For sure they never consumed refined or cooked grains. 2

And what is the basis for my making such a statement? Well first, grains are, as Webster's Dictionary defines them, "a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, rye, oats, rice, or millet." And though these grains were present in the Garden, it would be extremely difficult to grow enough and harvest enough to make a meal of them.

Secondly, because there was no fire in the Garden with which to cook the grains, how could they have been prepared for eating? Certainly there was no Tappan Gas range, GE Electric stove, or microwave oven in the Garden with which to cook them!

Interestingly, the very first time the word "fire" is found in the Bible occurs in Genesis 19:24, when "The Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and FIRE. . . . ." Although we do know that fire was available to Noah immediately after the flood, because in Genesis 8:20 he offered a "burnt offering" to the Lord. This was some 1,700 years after Adam and Eve had left the Garden.

In the Garden of Eden, some raw grains could have been soaked for several days in order to soften their hard shell, and sprout them and make them edible, but that is extremely unlikely. We do not know if they even had a container to soak them in. So with that as a little Biblical background, let's talk about the use of grains today as well as the use of grains on The Hallelujah Acres Diet:

WHOLE GRAINS ARE ALLOWED ON THE HALLELUJAH ACRES DIET

Before we talk about REFINED grains, I want our readers to understand that some WHOLE grains, in limited quantities, are allowed and a part of The Hallelujah Acres Diet. Whole grains are complex carbohydrates, which help us reach our caloric needs, and thus help to assure we receive sufficient protein from our diet.

However, even whole grains convert to sugar fairly rapidly, and thus it is not desirable to consume large amounts of even whole grains too frequently. Also, it is important to realize that wheat, in its whole and unrefined form, as well as in its refined form is acidic and possibly the least desirable of all the grains. If wheat is to be consumed, raw and sprouted is the most desirable form in which to consume this grain.

Sadly, very few whole grain products are available, and thus very few whole grains are consumed in today's society. Today, virtually all the breads, cereals, pastas, rice, corn, grits, etc. are made with processed and refined grains.

Americans, as well as much of the world today, have a love affair with soft, white pastries; breads made with bleached white flour, and for cereals that have often been divested of nutrition and fiber, and then dipped in sugar.

Because most grains being consumed today are in this refined form, this article will be primarily limited to this more popular and fragmented form. Before we turn to the subject of refined grains, which we will do in next week's Health Tip (Lord willing), there is one more thing we need to understand about not only whole and refined grains, but about most everything people eat today.

WHOLE GRAINS, WHEN COOKED, ARE A DEAD FOOD

All grains have their beginning in the living seed of a living plant! This seed, before processing or cooking, contains life in the form of enzymes. In fact, each seed contains within it the very source of life for a brand new 3

plant. But by the time it reaches the cooked or refined stage, it is robbed of all enzymatic activity (life has been destroyed), and it has been reduced to a very dead food, devoid of all enzymatic activity.

Our physical bodies are living organisms, comprised of living cells, and were designed by God to be nourished with living (raw) foods high in enzymatic activity (life). This fundamental and basic knowledge is key to understanding what is and what is not proper nourishment for the human physical body, as well as to the proper nourishment of all species of animal life.

Every animal in the wild, whether vegetarian or carnivorous, by instinct, consumes all of its food in its natural, raw, and living form!

Only man, thinking himself to be so wise and smarter than the animals in the wild, could display such ignorance as to destroy the life found within living plant foods before placing them into his mouth. Truly, animals in the wild are far wiser by instinct than we humans with all our supposed knowledge and wisdom.

The Bible tells us "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."

Friends, the Genesis 1:29 diet, which God the Creator gave Adam and Eve was comprised of 100% raw, living (enzyme rich) plant foods! Life begets life! Dead food cannot properly nourish a living organism (human physical body or even an animal's body in the wild). When a predominantly dead food diet is consumed, physical breakdown is the penalty for that violation.

Many pet owners wonder why their dogs or cats develop many of the same physical problems humans experience. Dogs and cats were created by God to be nourished with raw foods, enzymatically alive foods, just like we humans.

The pet foods available in box or can today have had the enzymes destroyed in the processing. These dead foods cause physical breakdown in the animals just as processed foods do in humans.

SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

The following experiment shows how garden foods are alive and cooking turns them into dead foods. This is an excellent project for children who are being home-schooled.

Go to the health food store and buy a pound of raw, organic, whole wheat berries (seeds).

At home, take half of the wheat berries and simmer them in boiling water for 10 minutes. Then drain, cool, rinse, and place them in a small mason jar with an old piece of nylon stocking over the opening, fastened in place with a rubber band.

Place the jar with opening at bottom so draining can continue.

In a second mason jar, place the remaining wheat berries with an old piece of nylon stocking over the opening, fastened in place with a rubber band as above.

Soak the seeds overnight in room temperature water.

In the morning, drain the water off the seeds. Rinse, and place jar with opening at bottom so draining can continue. 4

Each morning and evening, rinse the seeds in both jars with room temperature water. Drain completely and place jar with opening at bottom so draining can continue.

After a few days you will find that the jar containing the uncooked grain will start to sprout roots.

The jar containing the cooked grain will start to rot, mold, and smell very bad.

Right there before your very eyes, you will visually see the difference between dead food and living food.

Now, think about this - If even a whole organic grain becomes a dead food through the simple act of placing it in boiling water for a few minutes, how much living (raw with enzymes still intact) food are you really placing into your body on a daily basis to nourish your living cells.

The average diet today is predominantly (if not almost entirely) comprised of dead foods (devoid of enzymes).

Anything purchased in a container of any kind has had its enzymes destroyed by heat in the processing so that it can have shelf life.

Do we wonder why we suffer from so many physical breakdowns while animals in the wild who eat their food raw rarely ever get sick? The Bible tells us that what we sow we will reap!

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man SOWETH, that shall he also reap." -Galatians 6:7

WHY DOES THE HALLELUJAH DIET ALLOW SOME COOKED GRAINS?

The Hallelujah Acres Diet allows 15% of the foods consumed each day to be in the cooked form, including grains. For instance, we allow baked sweet potatoes, cooked whole grains and even whole grain pastas, steamed vegetables, baked squash, and cooked beans.

This may sound like a contradiction after all we have said regarding cooked foods, but there are reasons for these cooked foods. These are based on my 34 years of personal experience and research, as well as the experiences of tens-of-thousands of others who have written me and told of their personal experiences.

1. The average person is addicted to cooked food, and when that person tries to eat an all-raw diet, they are inclined to cheat. This cheating often becomes out of control and so they get discouraged and soon throw in the towel, and go back to their old, nearly 100% cooked food diet.

2. Many find it difficult to chew enough raw plant sourced foods to obtain sufficient calories. If enough calories are not consumed, the body may not receive sufficient protein. In cooked form, it is easier to chew and thus easier to obtain sufficient calories.

3. We need sufficient calories, especially in the form of carbohydrates, in order to have adequate energy. Some people, especially those who consume an excessive amount of fruit, find they have very low energy.

4. Some need more calories in order to keep from becoming too thin. Everyone should be thin, but some people become too thin if they do not consume some concentrated carbohydrates in cooked form. 5

5. Adding 15% cooked foods provide all of the above benefits, along with making the diet much more doable, while obtaining at least as good if not better results than trying to maintain a 100% raw plant sourced diet.

Interestingly, some nutrients are even more readily available to the body from foods when cooked - lycopene, found in tomatoes, being one of them.

Cooked grains can be a wonderful and tasty addition to The Hallelujah Acres Diet. Rhonda and this editor consume some cooked grains most every week, as well as something cooked most every day. The Hallelujah Acres Diet allows 15% of a day's food intake to be in cooked form.

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How We Contribute To Our Own Physical Problems (Part 3)

 

In this Health Tip we are going to talk about pH and the affect acid foods have upon our bone structure and how these acid foods cause osteoporosis (low bone density). To better understand pH, let's look at a few facts concerning acidity and alkalinity before we go any further:

EVERYTHING WE PLACE WITHIN THE BODY AFFECTS pH

The pH scale runs from "0" (extremely acid) to "14" (extremely alkaline). A pH of 0-6.9 is acid; 7 is neutral, 7.1 to 14, is alkaline. Each unit increases by the factor of 10. To neutralize 1 part of acid requires 10 parts of alkalinity.

Everything we place into our mouth in the form of food, drink or drug, has either an acidifying or alkalizing effect upon the body's pH (acid/alkaline balance).

Some body fluids must be kept acid for proper digestion (i.e. stomach fluids), while other body fluids must be kept alkaline (i.e. blood). Thus it is important that all body fluids maintain proper pH (acid/alkaline balance).  Maintaining proper pH in all body parts and functions is not difficult if we eat the 100% plant based, predominantly alkaline diet God told us to eat in Genesis 1:29. But if we eat those acidifying foods found outside a plant based diet, potential for problems and great harm arise.

ACIDIFYING FOODS & DRUGS

• All flesh foods are highly acidic - beef, pork, chicken, and fish (including salmon)
• All dairy foods are highly acidic, with cheese being the most acidic)
• Refined sugar is highly acidic
• Beer has a pH of 3.9 - 4.2 pH) and coffee a pH of 4.7 (both extremely acidic)
• Chocolate has a pH of 3.7, one of the most acidic things one can consume next to:
• Soft drinks have a pH ranging from 2.3 to 3.5, so acidic it eats away tooth enamel.
• Almost all drugs are acidic
• Most grains are acidic - especially wheat and wheat flour products

ALKALIZING FOODS

 

Almost all plant sourced foods leave an alkaline ash and thus have an ALKALIZING effect on the body. Barley Grass is one of the most alkalizing foods. Other alkalizing foods would include avocados, beets, carrots, all greens, almonds, and sunflower seeds, and even flax oil. A few plant foods leave an acid ash - blueberries, cranberries, plums, prunes, some nuts, seeds, and legumes.

Since all substances placed into the mouth have a pH value, it is easy to see how various food and drink items either acidify or alkalize the body and thus have a dramatic effect upon our health, digestion, blood, life, and longevity.

IF THE BLOOD BECOMES EVEN SLIGHTLY ACID THE BODY DIES

Few people realize that if the pH (the acid/alkaline balance) of the blood drops below 7.0 and (into the acid range), the body becomes first catatonic, then comatose, and then the person dies. Interestingly, if the body's pH rises above 7.45 it can lead to excessive alkalosis and even death if not quickly corrected. Maintaining proper blood pH is essential for keeping us alive and well on planet earth.

SURVIVAL IS THE BODY'S MOST IMPORTANT TASK

 

Our body's primary responsibility is survival - that is keeping us alive. Thankfully, that's the way God designed us and usually works quite well without our help. But in order for the body to keep us alive and well it must have our cooperation.

The very foundation of our life is the blood that courses through the arteries and veins of our body. Concerning this blood, the bible has the following to say in Leviticus 17:11:

"FOR THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD. . . . "

As we have already learned above, if the pH of the blood drops below 7.0, or into the acid range, we die. In order to keep us alive, the body is constantly striving to keep the bloods pH in that alkaline range and if the body does not have our cooperation in this, it must take that responsibility into its own hands and do the very best it can under the circumstances to keep that blood alkaline at all times lest we die.

Everything we eat, following digestion, leaves either an acid or alkaline ash. As we learned above, almost all plant sourced foods, especially deep green leafy vegetables, have an alkalizing effect on the body. While all animal sourced foods leave an acid ash after digestion, as does refined sugar, many grains, and all drugs (though they don't go through the digestive process).

BONE DENSITY IS DETERMINED BY WHAT WE EAT

 

If we consume a plant based (alkaline) diet, the diet God told us we should consume in Genesis 1:29, the pH of the blood is kept automatically in the alkaline zone. But when we consume a highly acidic diet, a diet containing lots of animal sourced foods, refined sugar and acid grains, the body has to find a way to neutralize all of that acidity in order to prevent the bloods pH from dropping into the acid zone which would cause our death.

When a person continues consuming all of these acid foods, and taking into their body all those acid producing drugs (all addictive drugs, including sugar, alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, are highly acidic), the body has got to find a way to neutralize all of that acidity. So what does the body have available in order to perform this task? The answer is - "alkalizing minerals".

The most alkalizing of all minerals found within the body, in greatest quantity, is calcium. So the body, in an effort to neutralize all the acidity we are placing into it, starts drawing calcium from the bones (99% of all the calcium in the body is found in the bones). As calcium is drawn from the bones, it begins to make the bones porous (a thinning of density process), thus causing what we call osteoporosis.

OSTEOPOROSIS IS THE CRUEL RESULT OF AN ACID DIET

This removal of calcium from the bones is a slow process, but over time, if the person continues consuming a highly acidifying diet, the bones thin, often resulting in a person falling and breaking a bone, or possibly a bone will just break for no apparent reason.

Probably the most feared of this bone thinning process called osteoporosis are hip fractures. Fractures of the wrists and even vertebrae are also related to osteoporosis. In America, over 70% of all the fractures occurring in people over the age of 45 are caused by osteoporosis (low bone density).

In fact, some 1.3 million osteoporosis related fractures occur in the United States each and every year. In 1995, the annual medical cost for osteoporotic fractures among those over the age 65 was 13.8 billion dollars. However, in addition to cost, these fractures, especially hip fractures, can significantly decrease quality of life and often set into motion a rapid deterioration of health leading to death.

And to think that if only that person had not consumed all those acid foods and drugs, and rather consumed a plant based (Genesis 1:29) diet, along with some resistant and weight bearing exercises, this type of problem would never have occurred.

HOW DOES THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY TREAT OSTEOPOROSIS

 

When the medical community sees that the body is losing bone density, rather than looking for what is causing the body to lose this density, the medical community tells the patient they need to increase their calcium intake. But increasing calcium intake will not fix the problem because increasing calcium intake does not deal with the root cause of the problem.

The dairy industry tells us that we must consume more calcium rich dairy foods to keep our bones strong to prevent osteoporosis. But what they don't tell us is that because of the acidity of the dairy, the body will excrete more calcium from the bones than it takes in from the dairy. Nor will the taking of calcium supplements improve the problem.

In fact, the inorganic calcium found in these calcium supplements can lead to the building of stones in the kidney and gallbladder along with this calcium joining with cholesterol to form plaque and hardening of the arteries. Anyone who has ever had a kidney or gallbladder stone and had it analyzed knows that the stone is almost always comprised of predominantly calcium.

HOW TO PREVENT AND CORRECT OSTEOPOROSIS

 

Osteoporosis can be prevented and low bone density even reversed by a simple change in diet and lifestyle. However, in order to prevent osteoporosis or further bone thinning, a person must realize that only they have the power to make it happen.  Following are things a person must do if they desire a strong, high density bone structure.

1. Change diet from a high animal based, sugar laden diet, to a 100% plant based diet. All high protein, acid forming foods should be totally eliminated and replaced with a highly alkalizing diet such as The Hallelujah Diet. The most alkalizing foods are your green leafy vegetables and cereal grasses. For instance, a cup of kale contains 179 mg of calcium; turnip greens 249 mg; collard greens 357 mg. (I have been on this alkalizing diet for the past 34 years.)
2. Include in each day's activities a time for stretching, resistant, load bearing and aerobic exercising. (I personally try to include all of these exercises into my busy schedule each and every day of my life.)
3. Make sure to get abundant sunshine or else take a vitamin D3 supplement, because the body cannot utilize calcium, no matter how much is in the body if it does not have adequate vitamin D required to absorb the calcium. (I personally take 5,000mg of vitamin D daily, plus try to get as much sunshine on my body each day as practical.)

ADAM AND EVE HAD NO BONE DENSITY PROBLEMS

 

I can guarantee you that Adam and Eve had no bone density issues because they consumed a diet that consisted of 100% plant based alkalizing foods and they spent considerable time in the sun. I know that they spent a lot of time in the sun because the bible says: "And they were both naked . . . ." (See Genesis 2:25).

The Hallelujah Acres diet and lifestyle because it consists of almost 100% plant based alkalizing foods, promotes daily exercise along with sun exposure and vitamin D supplementation, not only prevents thinning of the bones but will also help restore osteoporotic bones to hardness.

I have personally been on the Hallelujah Diet for 34 years now, and am currently 76-years of age. Three years ago at the age of 73, I fell from the top of a six foot ladder, breaking the fall somewhat with my arms, while my head (left eye and forehead in particular) landed full force on a landscape railroad tie, and I broke not a bone. Can you imagine what would have been the result of that fall at the age of 73 if I had not previously been on the alkalizing Hallelujah Acres diet?

Just recently, at the age of 76 as I was walking backward pulling a hose, I tripped over something and fell backward very hard. Nothing broke! There was no pain! I just got up, dusted myself off and continued walking backward pulling the hose, only being a little more careful to look behind me to prevent another fall. But friends, I have no fear of falling while many people my age and some lots younger have a great fear of falling.

As a boy, my mother used to say to me from time to time - "You are what you eat." But it has only been in recent years that I have fully understood the implications of what mother was saying.

In closing, I want to say to all our dear friends reading this "YOU ARE (or will become) WHAT YOU EAT."

 

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DESIGNED BY GOD "TO BE IN HEALTH"

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth." (3 John 2)

As I study the Gospel accounts of Jesus' earthly ministry, I find it interesting that before Jesus dealt with the spiritual needs of people, he first dealt with their physical needs. Scripture clearly indicates that Jesus' primary purpose for coming to earth was to "Seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10) and to ". . . give himself a ransom for all" (I Timothy 2:6). It is also clear that Jesus was not solely concerned with people's spiritual needs. He was concerned with their physical needs as well. As a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I personally ministered solely to the spiritual needs of the people during my early ministry as a pastor. In recent years however, I have had the privilege of ministering to the complete man - spirit, soul, and body - which has been most rewarding. In fact, I feel my latter years of ministry have more mirrored the ministry of Jesus than my former years. Hallelujah Acres is a Christian ministry that ministers to the whole man! "I pray your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (I Thessalonians 5:23) Although the Christian community ministers to the spiritual part of man, which of course is of greatest importance because it determines where one will spend eternity, sadly, most in the Christian community are in great ignorance and darkness when it comes to the physical needs of man.

This was brought vividly to my attention after a dear Christian brother had been diagnosed with colon cancer a few years ago. The doctors told him his cancer was terminal and that he was going to die. When first diagnosed, both 2

his pastor and I encouraged him to change his diet, but when he suggested a diet change to his doctor, the doctor laughed at the idea, and so he made no diet change. The doctor went further, not only telling him a diet change couldn't help, but that his only hope for extending his life was to yield his body to surgery and chemotherapy. So this dear brother listened to his doctors, had the surgery to remove a large section of his colon (leaving him with a bag to collect his feces), and accepted several rounds of chemotherapy. After much suffering at the hands of the medical doctors, he died. Thankfully, he knew the Lord, and was prepared spiritually for death, but physically he was only 60 years old. He should have had many years left to live and enjoy life and serve the Lord, but alas he could do neither. Do you realize that the average Christian can sit in the average church their entire life and never hear a message from the pulpit regarding how to take care of the physical body? You know it's true! While at the same time nothing is coming forth from the pulpit concerning how to take care of the physical part, 90% of the prayer requests in our churches are for physical problems. It is a tragedy that God's people have never been taught that if they neglect the physical part, it will break down and fail them. These physical breakdowns can cause problems that can affect their ability to serve the Lord, fulfill their spiritual ministry, and live a long and healthy life in God's service!

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE PHYSICAL PART

In 1976, at the age of 42, after totally saturating my life with the spiritual for the previous 20 years, I was suddenly brought to the realization that there was another part of me - a physical part. For the previous 20 years, while taking care of the spiritual part, I had almost totally neglected the physical part, and as a result was told I had colon cancer. I guess I believed that if I took care of the spiritual part, the physical part would take care of itself. Subconsciously I believed that if I put God first, and dedicated my life to serving Him and the helping of others spiritually, God would protect me from physical harm. How wrong I was! God used that cancer in my life to awaken me to the importance of not only taking care of the spiritual part, but also the necessity of taking care of the physical part if I wanted to live and continue the spiritual ministry to which God had called me. Sadly, I was not alone in this neglect of the physical, as I have learned that most in the Christian community, including most preachers, are also in great ignorance, darkness, and neglect, when it comes to the physical.

LISTEN TO WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE PHYSICAL PART

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world . . . " (Romans 12:1-2a)

In this scripture, the believer is being admonished to take proper care of their physical body. Also, this scripture is telling us that we cannot take proper care of this physical body if we are "conformed to this world." And there are other verses dealing with the physical: 3

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price [the shed blood of Jesus]: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (I Corinthians 6:19-20) "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile [bring harm to] the temple [physical body] of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." (I Corinthians 3:16-17) In the above verses we learn that because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, and through our acceptance of that sacrifice, our body has literally become the temple of God. Thus we are bought with a price. Because we have been purchased by God with Jesus' shed blood, we should glorify God in our body. And if we fail to to that and defile [bring harm to] His temple [our physical body], God will destroy it!

GOD DID NOT DESIGN HIS HUMAN CREATION TO BE SICK

In Genesis 1:31, after the six days of creation had been completed, during which time God made all things - including man - we read: "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold it was very good . . ." Friends, God made no mistakes in creation! In the New Testament, in 3 John 2 we read: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." From the above verses it is evident that sickness was not (and is not) a part of God's plan for His human creation. So, why do we humans get sick? The answer is found in Galatians 6:7: "Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Sowing and reaping is an irrefutable natural law established by God! Sowing and reaping can have many applications, but in keeping with the subject, we get sick because we are not taking proper care of our physical bodies. We get sick because we are putting things into this physical body that cause it harm. Even if we do so in ignorance, we create physical problems within our physical temples! Thus: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge . . ." (Hosea 4:6)

CHRISTIANS ARE JUST AS SICK AS NON-CHRISTIANS

Statistically, we find that Christians are just as sick as non-Christians, suffering the same physical breakdowns, to the same percentages, in spite of an abundance of spiritual prayers for healing.

HOW DO CHRISTIANS DEAL WITH PHYSICAL PROBLEMS?

Sadly, except for spiritual prayer, the Christian community deals with their physical problems the same way the non-Christian community does: they go to the same doctors, take the same toxic drugs, and allow their bodies to be burned with the same radiation and mutilated with the same surgeries in an effort to remove physical problems. This drugging, burning, and mutilating is what I call the World's System of Health Care. Is there a better way? Absolutely! 4

GOD BUILT SELF-HEALING INTO EACH OF OUR BODIES

Although God did not design us to get sick; God in His infinite wisdom and foreknowledge knew that we would get sick because we would not take proper care of our physical bodies. This is why He built self-healing into each of us. We clearly see this self-healing manifested when we cut ourselves: bleeding cleanses the wound, the scab protects the wound, and beneath the scab the body knits the skin back together. Finally we see the result of this self-healing when the scab falls off. When God created those first two humans, Adam and Eve, He placed the ability to self-heal within their genetic coding. This same self-healing has passed down from generation to generation, ultimately to you and me! Built right into each one of us is the ability to heal almost every physical problem that comes our way during our entire lifetime - without drugs, radiation, or surgeries! As we learn more about this incredible physical body temple that God has provided each of us, how can we fail to exclaim words similar to those of the Psalmist in Psalm 139:14: "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . . ."

NOTHING CAN HEAL THE BODY EXCEPT THE BODY ITSELF

My dear friend, there is not a doctor in the entire world capable of healing anyone of anything, nor is there a drug, radiation or surgery that can heal anyone of anything. And to go a step further - there is not a vitamin or mineral supplement, herbal compound, or homeopathic concoction that can heal anyone of anything. There is not even a food or glass of fresh vegetable juice, capable of healing anyone of anything. There is nothing that can be done to the outside of the body or placed into the body that can heal it. Man has been searching for centuries (and spent untold amounts of money) seeking a cure for physical ills. In spite of all these efforts and expenditures, mankind is growing increasingly sicker while the cost of so-called health care continues to rise. Sadly, man will never find the solution to these physical ills until he realizes that the only healing that can ever take place in the body is the self-healing that God built within each one of us, and that can only manifest when we bring conditions about within the body that will allow the body to do what God designed it to do.

GOD GAVE ADAM AND EVE A DIET THAT PRODUCED HEALTH

In Genesis 1:29, God gave Adam and Eve the same diet that is capable of nourishing your marvelous physical body today. This diet provides the body with the nutrients God designed it to be nourished with. As the body receives these plant nutrients, physical problems usually begin to disappear and we don't get sick anymore. In 1976, after having experienced numerous physical problems for the previous 42 years, culminating in colon cancer, I stopped putting into my body substances found outside God's Genesis 1:29 garden diet. Then I started nourishing my body exclusively with the living nutrients found in garden foods, and within one year, not only was my cancer gone - and without any help from the doctors might I add - but also gone were all the other physical problems I was suffering with at the time. 5

The physical problems I had previously experienced were the result of eating what I call the "world's diet" or the "Standard American (SAD) Diet." Today, 34 years after abandoning the world's diet and adopting God's Genesis 1:29 Diet, I am 76 years old, am able to do anything physically I desire, and continue to enjoy excellent health. Because of this personal experience, in 1992 my wife Rhonda and I established Hallelujah Acres, a Christian ministry that teaches health from a biblical perspective. Since establishing Hallelujah Acres, millions have adopted what we call The Hallelujah Diet (based on the God's Genesis 1:29 diet). As a result, tens of thousands have written to tell me that after they stopped eating the world's SAD diet and started eating The Hallelujah Diet, they recovered from over 170 different physical problems and hardly ever get sick anymore. In the bible, in Mark 5:25-26, we find clear evidence of the medical community's inability to bring healing to the physical body. "And a certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse." Some 2,000 years later, we find that the world's system of disease care has not improved ("suffered many things of many physicians"), nor has its cost ("spent all that she had") or outcome ("was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse"). How many more Christians will have to suffer, be sidelined, and die needlessly and prematurely at the hands of the medical community before we realize that God has not only made provision for the spiritual part of man, but also the physical part? How much longer is it going to take the Christian community to realize that there is a better way than the world's way of dealing with physical problems, and that my dear friend, is what I call God's Way! This writer, along with Rhonda and our entire staff here at Hallelujah Acres are here to help you restore your body to the physical health God designed for you. We are here to help you with your spiritual needs as well, so that you can be a complete person in - "spirit, soul, and body". My prayer for you dear reader is: "I pray your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (I Thessalonians 5:23)

EXPERIENCE HEALTHY LIVING!

If you are not already on The Hallelujah Diet, I encourage you to give it a try! Hallelujah Acres is a Christian Ministry that teaches health from a Biblical perspective! We try to help the

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Maintaining Health Is Our Responsibility - Not Government's

 

Dear friends, government, no matter how much of our tax money it spends, cannot prevent sickness nor restore health to anyone, because God has given that responsibility not to government, but rather to each of us as individuals as we read in Romans 12:1-2:

"I beseech YOU therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present YOUR BODIES a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE.  And BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

Attaining And Maintaining Health Requires Knowledge

Attaining and maintaining a healthy body and a sound mind requires more than money. It requires more than government-mandated programs. It requires more than Health Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Hospitals, doctors, prescription and over the counter drugs, chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries, and all the other expensive so-called fixes of our day. It even requires more than herbs and homeopathic medicines.

Attaining and maintaining a healthy body and a sound mind also requires more than university-trained nutritionists telling us what we should or should not eat in order to be properly nourished. In fact, attaining and maintaining a healthy body and sound mind usually requires even more than God's involvement.

Rather, attaining and maintaining health requires knowledge and an understanding of how God designed us and how God intended us to nourish this incredible, God created, "wonderfully made", physical body we each possess. Listen to what God has to say concerning knowledge in Hosea 4:6

"MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE"

I stand amazed at the ignorance of our current generation. How we have totally forsaken God and natural instinct, and rather placed the nourishing and care of our physical bodies into the hands of government and the so-called experts of our day, rather than in the "knowledge" the God who created us placed in His book of maintenance, the Bible.

Listen to what God has to say with regard to following the teachings of this world:

"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God . . . . The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men." (I Corinthians 3:19-21)

"Better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man." (Psalm 118:8)

We Create Our Own Physical Problems And Health Challenges

I am going to drop a bomb shell here: Whether we want to believe it or not, we are not the innocent victim but rather the cause of almost every physical and psychological problem we experience during our entire lifetime. And if we are going to recover from that problem it is our own personal responsibility to make it happen.

But to correct that physical or psychological problem, it's going to require a paradigm shift. If we are going to get well we must change how we think and how we deal with these problems. All of our lives, most of us have been programmed, as my registered nurse mother programmed me as I was growing up - "When you get sick, you go to the doctor and you do what the doctor says." Friends, going to a doctor and doing what the doctor says will never produce a healthy body or mind!

We Are Not The Innocent Victim

To obtain and maintain health we must stop seeing ourselves as the victim. We must stop believing that our physical and psychological problems came from something we have no control over such as bad germs, viruses, bacteria, and even bad genes.

In our attempt to get guidance and direction for our sufferings and afflictions, we neglect to look within and instead look to people and places that don't see the power of the incredible body and rely on artificial means that have never proven to have long term positive results.

We must realize that putting our bodies in the hands of strangers and giving them power over our very body and lives is dangerous. Treating symptoms never eliminates the problem. Chemotherapy and drugs have no power to heal. Radiation has never healed anyone but rather produced further damage. Surgeries do additional harm.

Only We Can Correct Our Own Health Problems

It is only when we realize that we created the physical or psychological problems we are experiencing and acknowledge that it is only we that can correct these problems that we can begin our journey back to wellness and the ultimate health God designed for each of us.

The traditional medical process usually begins with a test of some sort. And that is where the ever-increasing number of diagnostic and early detection tests come into play, which seem to find something wrong with even the healthiest person.

Sadly, these tests often create new problems. Take a colonoscopy for instance: I just learned the other day of a lady who submitted her body to a colonoscopy just to make sure she didn't have a problem in her colon. But in performing the procedure the lining of the colon tore and fecal waste began pouring into her body almost causing her death.

And how many times has a mammogram resulted in a false reading that resulted in great anxiety, further tests, further expense and sometimes even unnecessary surgeries?

The problem that I see is that although most doctors entered the profession to help their fellow man, they were simply not trained in medical school how to cure anyone of anything or how to restore wellness to the physical body. Rather than studying a health model, they were only taught pathology, illness, death and chemical intervention to suppress the symptoms of disease.

These chemical interventions and other modalities have the potential to do additional harm to the body creating additional problems requiring additional treatment. These additional problems and treatments often begin a slow deterioration of the person's health and before they know it they have developed a growing list of new health challenges, each requiring additional doctoring, medications, and cost.

Now I acknowledge that the medical community does excel when it comes to repairing bodies that have been broken in an accident, but when it comes to sickness and disease, they have absolutely no knowledge as to how to restore wellness in the people who come to them.

And as for doctors giving you advice as to how to become healthy, most have no knowledge at all. This becomes quickly evident when you observe the health of the doctors themselves that you go to for a fix. Do they not experience the same physical problems as do the people who come to them for help? If they knew how to fix us, they would have already fixed themselves.

Animals In The Wild Far Wiser Than We Humans

If we will take just a few moments to consider the animals in the wild I believe we can learn something. Animals in the wild carry no Health Insurance, nor are they provided with Medicare, Medicaid, Hospitals, doctors, drugs, radiation, or surgeries.

Nor do they have university trained nutritionists to tell them what they should or should not eat, or how many grams of this or calories of that they should consume to be properly nourished, and yet animals in the wild rarely ever get sick!

So just what is it that allows animals in the wild, without any help from the medical community or dieticians to experience excellent health, while man with all these so-called helps, becomes sicker and sicker as the cost of their so-called health care continues to climb?

Here is the answer: Animals in the wild follow the instincts God placed within them when He created them. An animal in the wild knows by the instinct programmed into them by God, where to go to obtain the nutrients necessary to sustain life immediately upon birth. Do they not instinctively seek out mother's milk supply without any help from man?

And after these wild animals are weaned, do they not know instinctively and by mother's example, and without man's help, what to eat in order to sustain life? We call them dumb animals, but they are far wiser than we humans when it comes to how to nourish and maintain their God created bodies.

So Why Do We Humans Get Sick?

Most people who drive an automobile know that the engine of the vehicle they are driving was designed by its designer to run on a certain grade or octane of gasoline. If they are not aware of this and in ignorance place within the gas tank of that vehicle a low octane fuel or contaminated fuel, what will be the result? Will that low octane or contaminated fuel not cause pinging and knocking?

Now if when that pinging and knocking occurs, they take the vehicle to a mechanic to fix and he is unaware that they have put a low octane or contaminated fuel in the gas tank, the mechanic might do all kinds of things in an effort to repair the engine while charging money for his efforts. But the mechanic will be unable to fix the problem as long as he is unaware the problem was caused by the owner placing wrong fuel in the gas tank.

If we humans are going to experience the health we so desire we must be mindful of the warning God gives us in Galatians 6:7, and let's apply this teaching to what we take into our body and expose our body to: "And be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

Almost every physical and even psychological problem we humans experience during our entire lifetime is caused by placing the wrong fuel (food and/or drink) into our body. And the problems we are experiencing are merely the body reacting to the wrong fuel.

If this be so, what can the doctor do to help us? If the problem we are experiencing is caused by wrong or bad fuel, can that pinging and knocking be corrected by placing more contaminants into the body in the form of drugs (poisons)?  Or rather will not these additional contaminants produce more pinging and knocking (additional problems)?

And if the problem is caused by bad fuel, will radiating (burning) the offending part restore health? Or will removing the part through surgery restore health. Do you believe the mechanic working on your car can, by removing the spark plugs or other parts, create a condition that will allow the car to run better, when the problem was bad fuel?

I am out of space for this Health Tip. Next week, the good Lord willing, we will take a look at the fuel we are placing into our bodies and see if we can determine what part we are playing in the creation of the physical and psychological problems we are experiencing.

To be continued...

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How deep do you want to go with this Jesus thing?

How much would be too high a cost?

If it cost you your job, your home, your wife, your children, your reputation, your money, your freedom, your life...

When will it be too much?

Painfull? Are you understanding the question?

Consider the cost.

Choose today who you will serve. If it be Jesus, serve him with your whole heart. If it be something else, serve that.

You cannot serve two masters. You will love the one and hate the other.

It's up to you...

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Where we reside is very important and will effect where we will be for all eternity...our hearts that is, where are your treasures lying today?  I write this because I am concern for people of faith that are being lead astray and have other desires to serve themselves that the Will of YHWH...You have to be the judge for yourself..."I established you a covenant of people to enlighten the nations."  Merit gives reason for the existence of the entire world.  Listen to the Rabbi:  All nations owe their existence to the Jewish people who continue the world's purpose.  Why? They acknowledge their Creator and adds significant dimension to this enlightenment of all people.  How will the world appreciate the truth of creation IF your light is dim or flickering random, and you participate in its quick and easy schemes, which fail you and them.  Eternity is at hand and count the cost of the impression this truth of everything belongs to Him and no one can steal from HIM...If you question YHWH'S favoritism to His chosen people...He will give you the answer you are looking for.."Let the earlier ones inform us by giving their testimony and proving our righteousness." Isa.43:9  At the end of time HaShem will call upon Nimrod, Lavan, Potiphar;s wife, Nebbuchadnetzar and Daryovish to attest to the Jewish people's moral conduct...The Name identifies us through our attributes of kindness, compassion, and piety in the same way that Hashem is KNOWN...for the sake of ALL His people.  Jewish people carry the stamp of creation, being created in His sacred image...reflects Him as Our Creator...we are created solely to serve HIM...Rabbi Dovid Siegel and Project Genesis, Inc.

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Separate and Different Creations every one has their own assigned purpose in being created. 

We were created to protect each other universally and support other creation in the divinely ordained right to accomplish their missions.   The interfering,hindering or hogging that which does not belong to you days are over.  It is no more than opposing the established order of the Creator and His purpose in creating each specific creation, if in any form,  you are in one of these catagories you will be cut off. Cherish the rights of all people whether you have the influence to change their way of thinking or not..what is theirs is for them and who they are is who they can be...YHWH had the final decision in their existence.  All are glorious creations and when we operate from love we embrace, not try to control, the reality of "specifications"...that is what makes you and I special...Our Heavenly Father works and will be glorified from all of His handiwork.....is it worth it to tear down each other in order to validate self...when God has already validated you? Isaiah 42:5  - 43:10  Creation is an ongoing phenomenon and process..He constantly reviews Creation daily...In His goodness...a new song What is that purpose? "You are My Witnesses and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you will know and believe in ME, and understand that I am HE....So GOD said...

 

 

 

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For most Americans, health freedom is a non-issue. It is a subject removed, if not foreign. Nevertheless, in light of the wave of events that is unfolding in our immediate and not so immediate world, the issue of health freedom promises to become highly personal in the not-so distant future. Those who brave the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle know that doing so sometimes comes with risks. Living healthy can have a down side.

Whereas the benefits of natural, wholesome living are unquestionable, personal wellbeing is often accompanied by tests, trials, and emotional pain. This pain is due in part because those around us don't understand why we chose to depart from the norm, albeit the conventional, standard American lifestyle in favor of a way of life that is free of sickness, pain, and disease. As strange as this may sound, it is true. Many people consider the live food lifestyle [Hallelujah Diet] to be a form of bondage of which they want no part.

So it is that one man's bondage becomes another man's freedom. All experience life on a different level, and herein often lies the rub. Sadly most Americans who entertain the Standard American lifestyle do not know that they are in bondage. They have bought a way of life that is, for the most part, a product of food merchants, politicians,  governments, organized medicine, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and undertakers.

The quality of life derived from this lifestyle is harmful, if not injurious, to one's health! Truly the American lifestyle proves itself to be a crash course, an accident looking to happen. It is another manifestation of the age-old 'herd mentality', the blind leading the blind wherein everyone falls into the ditch. So it is that life on the conventional conveyor belt in America is what many call 'living free.'

It has been said that freedom is a choice, and this being true, we are coming to a time in our nation's history when the definition of freedom will need to be revisited and personally relearned for the sake of survival, if nothing else; for presently there exists a battle, if not a war, which few know exists. This conflict is called Health Freedom. At stake in this battle and/or war is your life...your right to pursue a natural, wholesome lifestyle.

Those who have fabricated the Standard American way of life through promotion of a wreckless diet, toxic medical care, and lawless living are consolidating their forces in an effort to stamp out all vestiges of wellbeing, whether it is yours or mine. The actions of these would-be saviors of mankind have turned the American Dream into a nightmare. Power hungry, profit-motivated food merchants, the medical industry, pharmaceutical companies, insurance agencies, lawyers, politicians, and government agencies are working together in one massive offensive to keep the American public from being healthy. This sickness mentality is not only pervasive but criminal, and it is destroying our nation one person at a time.

Health is not a privilege, but a YAH [God]-given right. Nevertheless, we are a nation that has largely turned its back on YHVH [God] in order to serve lesser gods, the gods of mammon (man). Man has had seven thousand years to prove his worth, and the results are dismal. For all of man's efforts, his achievements speak for themselves. Mankind is presently suffering the ills of man's ill-conceived ideas about life and how to pursue it. After all these years, this is what man has to show for himself:

1)Toxic Food - Fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, grains that are largely hybrid, genetically altered, irradiated, pasteurized, and laden with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This adulteration of natural foods violates YHVH's commandment, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery (i,e. mix or change the seed)'- Exodus 20:14. YHVH forbade His people to commit this practice because it endangered their wellbeing (health) and prosperity (longevity). Altered food is unnatural and therefore foreign/toxic to the natural body.

2) Toxic Food Manufacturing - Preserving of foods dates back to ancient times, but processing of foods is a more recent invention that was popularized as the result of WWII. When women left the kitchen to enter the work place, the American way of life, to include home cooking, began to die. Processed, pre-cooked, manufactured foods appeared as the solution for mealtime. Convenience foods became the demand and eventually the norm, to the point where today the average American meal is birthed in a factory not the family kitchen. Processed foods are, by definition, exposed to high levels of heat (which kill naturally-occurring vitamins, minerals, enzymes, oxygen, and distilled water), contain chemically-derived food additives (that are known carcinogens and neurotoxins), and are often made with genetically modified organisms.

Recent studies show that over eighty five percent of supermarket food is genetically modified. No labeling requirements exist for GMOs. Manufactured, processed, 'fractured/fragmented' foods, aka 'fast' and 'junk' foods, contain little to no nutrition. They are dead foods. Dead food cannot feed a live body.

3) Toxic Food Merchants - For all intents and purposes, profit appears to be the motivation of most food merchants. Though a precious, if not sacred commodity, food has become a tool for merchants to exercise power and control over a population. History proves that profit rather than principles of proper nutrition motivate food merchants. Greed is not a healthy virtue nor is the love of money. Scripture says,
‘For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil'- I Timothy 6:10

4) Toxic Medicine - Organized medicine is man's solution to health care. It is an allopathic approach, based on treating symptoms rather than the cause of the problems(s). For the most part, the forte of this modality is to diagnose, dispense drugs, prescribe chemically-derived or genetically-engineered therapy/treatment, and perform (often unnecessary) surgery. Medical professionals are not schooled in nutrition. Furthermore, they receive perks and commissions from pharmaceutical companies on the drugs they dispense. Medical institutions enjoy little to no liability for patient injury. Statistics show that there are more fatalities annually at the hands of medical professionals than those incurred in automobile accidents. Studies also show that more people are leaving hospitals sicker than when they were admitted.

5) Toxic Drug Industry - Pharmaceutical companies represent one of the biggest industries in America. The use of chemically-derived drugs to treat health problems has evolved over the centuries to become one of the most powerful weapons of mass destruction. Over 400,000 people die annually from pharmaceutical-related injuries. The word 'pharmacy' is derived from the Greek, pharmakeia, which means 'sorcery.' Revelation 9:21 warns about the practice of sorcery and its associated judgment, ''and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts". Sorcery is a practice forbidden by YHVH, because it is a form of devil worship. Nevertheless, the American public (this includes many believers) has succumbed to methods of sorcery to solve health problems rather than obey YHVH's original plant-based [Genesis 1:29] diet and prosper. Because of their chemical nature, all pharmaceutical drugs are toxic, i.e. poisonous (especially to the liver), and therefore harmful to the body. Statistics prove that pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit not the welfare of those they purport to serve. Pharmaceutical companies, along with the tobacco, alcohol, meat, and dairy industries, are major lobbyists in the US government.

6) Toxic Vaccinations - Poisonous inventions of pharmaceutical companies, organized medicine, politicians, and governments that are promoted as disease-preventive measures. Facts prove otherwise. Vaccines contain toxic substances such as mercury, formaldehyde, live animal (usually monkey) viruses, aborted fetal tissue, MSG and aspartame (known poisons), sorbitol (sugar), chick embryos, and more. Reactions from vaccinations are well known and widespread, causing serious illness and even death. Contrary to popular opinion, diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid, polio, and small pox were not eradicated because of vaccinations but because of increased pubic sanitation. Vaccinations mutate and destroy the body's genetic code (DNA).

7) Toxic Politicians - Allowing for the natural tendency of man toward vice, it could be rightfully said that politics is largely an unhealthy pursuit, especially when it comes to protecting public wellbeing. Despite incessant bureaucratic maneuvering, politicians prove that good health cannot be legislated. Sadly, politicians are largely responsible for promoting the toxic American lifestyle. This is due in part because 1) they have no knowledge of what constitutes good health or its principles, 2) they personally entertain a poor health habits, and 3) their actions are often motivated by money or power. Politicians are notorious for the perks/kick-backs that they receive from special interest groups (corporations) who seek political influence/power.

8) Toxic Government - Historically speaking, organized governments prove to be unhealthy, for they do not have public welfare much less the law of YHVH at heart. Therefore, they are destructive at best. Whereas the American Republic was founded on righteous principles, it has slowly evolved into a dangerous, unhealthy democracy. Our present government and its many branches, departments, and agencies has shown itself to be hostile toward the American public by denying them their YAH-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (which includes health freedom). Agencies such as the FDA and the USDA protect corporate interests and not the public good. Government bureaucracies wage war on farmers, ranchers, and consumers. Public outcry concerning issues of food safety and truth in labeling are conveniently ignored for the sake of corporate power. Governments create health care systems, invent public health policies, and expect the average American to accept these decrees without argument or redress.

9) Toxic Insurance Industry - Insurance companies work hand-in-hand with organized medicine, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, and governments to 'insure' access to health care. While the principle appears just, the system is not. Like most corporate entities, insurance companies are motivated by profit and not public welfare. Their assets are tied to investments that are now proving to be unprofitable, financially unsound and illegal. The current economic downturn is collapsing many insurance companies, leaving policy holders in the lurch.

That Americans have bought into this toxic lifestyle is sad but true. Much like Eve and Snow White, they have been seduced into believing a lie. Consuming poisonous food, taking poisonous drugs, undergoing barbaric, inhumane, often unnecessary surgery and/or treatments, being victimized by organized medicine, insurance companies, ignorant politicians, and abusive governments is neither healthy or is it an exercise in freedom.

This way of life is nothing more than glorified slavery. This fact is born out by countless cases of horrific health problems and deaths across the countries that are the result of medical blunders and abuses. Furthermore, Americans are being terrorized by government agencies, politicians, and the media for refusing to live the Standard American lifestyle and submit to organized medicine and its modalities.

Parents are being arrested, jailed, and prosecuted for 1) refusing chemotherapy for their children, 2) raising their children on a raw food diet, 3) refusing to vaccinate their children, and 4) speaking out against organized medicine. In these and many other cases, children are being removed from homes and placed into foster care.

So it is that exercising health freedom in America is becoming increasingly dangerous. It often comes at a great price and with great sacrifice. Families have been destroyed, lives lost, and countless, hard-earned dollars spent, searching for justice and that all-important commodity called Health Freedom. Does it exist in America? If so, why are so many people suffering for exercising their YAH-given right to a better, healthier quality of life?

I leave you with some articles and websites to ponder.

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1 Peter 1:20 

First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by human will, but men and women moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

 

The Hebrew word for prophet in early Old Testament writing means "to bubble forth" as from a fountain. This speaking forth is not an involuntary exercise, it's more a yielded obedience based upon the prophet both knowing and honoring God.  

The prophet is all about proclamation, testifying, witness, and declaration.  In one word it's safe to say the prophet is all about Word. 

God is the God of revelation, He's constantly making Himself known and in light of that, he's really big on witness, He never leaves himself without a responding witness to His glory. 

More than likely, I believe, if God were to speak directly to the church in a true audible voice, there would be few remaining witnesses left standing to speak of the event.  His word, is not what we think it to be, it has power coming from absolute Holiness, not like our words.  

Jesus was the Word become flesh, the Word of God throttled down (so to speak), in an earth suit. Survivable. 

With two seemingly simple words Jesus testified to who he was and a pack of rough and tumble Roman guards get knocked on their cans. Things moved, people were fed and healed, oceans calmed and dead men raised to life.  

This same demonstrative "audio power" is the plutonium which powers the core of the prophet, the indwelling testimony "of" The Word. The same character and nature Who's source is the One who sits enthroned in a shroud of terrifying glory. The true prophet, by the will of God, is deposited with this very nature, this gift. Subsequently as a gift from God to men, the prophet finds himself in the midst of the church, the body of Christ, speaking forth the testimony of Glory and Majesty before those who profess this same indwelling presence. The frustration for the prophet is an empty silence, a void of any resounding witness establishing the presence of God among them. 

In the book of Revelation 1:5, Jesus is presented to the seven churches in Asia as, "the true and faithful witness", I believe, as a reminder to the churches of their role in Christ, their personality, character, source and also as a reminder of what they hadn't been, what they lost or had failed to be. 

 

Jesus said, "those who are my sheep know my voice".

Everybody LOVES God, until He actually shows up, usually in the form of testimony spoken either through His Son, prophets or true disciples. Most often HE's shunned, ignored, written off, killed, beat, burned, crucified, beheaded or determined to be divisive and eventually is surgically removed. 

The prophet is an audible witness of God, for the sake of the church, reminding them of Who they are to reflect, how they are to look, the image they are to manifest. History has proven many times, it's the prophet who's not welcome.

The prophet has this insatiable devotion that the witness of God's glory be rightly acknowledged in the heavens and earth and among those He has created.  He's kind of like a spiritual building inspector for the dwelling place of God, making sure the foundation (Christ) is laid correctly, and that everything built upon it remains consistent with it.  If something is out of square or false materials are being used, they are pointed out and requested to be removed and replaced. This ensures that the resulting effort is for the glory and exaltation of God alone. The prophet finds all to often, that the faithful are being preached into a preoccupation with things that are of no real value building an edifice which exalts either the name or reputation of their particular fellowship or that of their pastor.

 

2 Corinthians 1:2-4 

"For I am jealous of you with God’s own jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. However, I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by its tricks, so your minds may somehow be lured away from sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or should you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you are all too willing to listen. 

 

I remember several years ago I was sitting in a leadership meeting of a local fellowship, the pastor went around the room asking each person what they believed their role was in the body of Christ based upon the gifting God had given them. (whatever!) Several lofty, cool sounding responses flew forth and then it was my turn. "Well Ken, what's yours?" I thought for  awhile and eventually said, "My role is to evangelize the church back to Christ."

Clang! Hey, it just bubbled forth!

Needless to say, that was the beginning of the end. Or maybe the end of the beginning?

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